Tag archives for apocalypse
A random discovery about zypper, thanks to rpm and a deb package
It happens to me to discover some quirks and facts by accident. Today, something that made me question the design of zypper, a crucial openSUSE tool! Here's the full story,…
Microsoft + CloudStrike = Death
The culprit for the current global Windows outage that affected banks, airlines, hospitals, and many other services and industries since the early morning of Friday, July 19, CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor,…
The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated!
The BSDs, especially FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, are far from being dead. The problem is that they never targeted the desktop users, especially not the laptop users. Here's what…
I’d kill the entire Linux kernel team!
While being busy testing all the distros on the mini-PC and on the newer laptop, I forgot to properly test them on the old one. It's from 2016, with a…
SJVN made my day!
Please excuse the thumbnail for this post. I just couldn't use anything else, in the light of having read SJVN's latest article in The Reg. I also cannot quote from…
The shortest distro bashing and appraisal in a long while—now with added Dedoimedo!
Not long ago, I tentatively said that “I will keep using AlmaLinux with KDE on the mini-PC and on the newest laptop, at least for some time” and “For the…
Is systemd cancer? A reignited debate
I thought it's going to be a slow, uneventful Monday. As it turned out, I had a lot to read. It all started from the first comment of today's DWW.…
Norm Finkelstein, the reasonable Jew
Reasonable, as in “the voice of reason”; because very few of the prominent Jewish voices are honest enough intellectually as to criticize the actions of the state of Israel in…
Yanis and the “Zionism Über Alles” Germany
Yes, I know it's not kosher to compare Israel to Nazi Germany. But I also know that Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing since 1948 (Nakba), and of apartheid at…
Open-source software: the road to hell?
I'm hyperbolizing, but still. Open source was supposed to be the best possible software development model. Even those not into the GPL vs BSD war, or more generally, the copyleft…
Answering to anti-establishment people on Ukraine
I know that most people in Europe are fed up with the war in Ukraine; that many of them believe that the high energy prices and the inflation are exclusively…
This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, together with DiEM25 and MERA25 activists, recently took part in an anti-war rally in Munich, Germany. This speech is likely to have taken place on February 17, 2024:…
I decided to ignore the upcoming Apocalypse—life is too short as it is
This is not the first time I promise myself to stop writing about politics and whatever I believe to be completely wrong in the society. This time, I hope, I'll…
Israel’s Defense at the International Court of Justice is Disgusting
South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice is, without any doubt, not a sincere one. South Africa has its own domestic issues, and it's siding with…
Is an armistice in Ukraine still possible?
If you’ve been following the news from Ukraine, the situation sucks big time: Zelenskiy bypasses General Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, by contacting his subordinates directly,…
The Human Shield mantra about Gaza
If you look at my posts tagged Israel, you'll notice how my stance has gradually changed in these 6 weeks of war in Gaza. To explain it, I'll quote a…
Some more thoughts about Palestine
Analysts, journalists, TV hosts, almost everyone mainstream in Europe has now decided that whoever objects to Israel's indiscriminate bombing of Gaza must be an adept of one or more of…
For the last time, this is not about Hamas!
Lately, the mass-media insists on the huge wealth accumulated by top Hamas leaders living outside Gaza: Ismail Haniyeh $4 billion, Khaled Mashal $4 billion, Abu Marzuk $3 billion, according to…
Corupția structurală regionalizată a Uniunii Europene
Când sunt deprimat, nu mai suport imbecilitatea planetară, și nici tâmpenia incredibilă la care a ajuns Eurocrația, și odată cu ea, noi toți. Dacă nu știați că fondurile Regio „Instrumente…
Comment devient-on un tout petit peu pro-palestinien ?
C'est mon sixième billet posté sous le marqueur Israël, mais le premier en français. Cela est dû principalement au fait que je vais mentionner des vidéos qui, pour la plupart,…